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This is from a legal newsletter:

 

Enforcement Bureau’s Wireless
Top-10 Violations List
At this month’s Land Mobile Communications Committee
(LMCC) annual meeting, the deputy chief of the FCC
Enforcment Bureau presented his “Top-10 List” for wireless
violations. Interestingly enough, there was a common
theme with most of the violation types that the Enforcement
Bureau discussed – namely, interference.
Absent from the list however were antenna tower violations
which we know remain an important compliance for
the FCC nonetheless.
 
10. Non-compliance with the narrowbanding
mandate. Enforcement stated that this is more
prevalent with older systems that have not been
replaced or upgraded.
9. Poor Engineering. Engineering which causes
interference to co-channel stations, or interference
resulting from spurious emissions and harmonics.
8. Licenses held by corporations that have been
sold, suspended or are otherwise out of business.
This makes it difficult for the FCC to resolve interference
issues that could normally be handled by
a simple phone call.
7. Unlicensed operation. This problem is on the
rise due to the purchase of radio equipment from
retail outlets, without attention to the need for
FCC licensing. Offending users are most prevalent
in the retail, hospitality and auto industries.
6. Itinerant or special event interference. Interference
between special event radio operations under
special temporary authority (STA) (e.g., car
races, rock concerts, etc.) and incumbent licensed
operations. Caused by frequency congestion
which makes interference free operation under
STA more difficult. Special event operations must
be careful to coordinate with incumbents to avoid
interference.
5. Failure to properly monitor shared channels before
transmitting (for Part 90 and other shared
spectrum operations)
4. Failure to properly identify your station call sign:
Enforcement is going to crack down on this because
it frustrates efforts to identify the source of
interfering signals.
3. Frequency Warehousing. Created by a failure
to construct or by permanent discontinuance of
operation without returning spectrum to FCC.
2. Control Channel Trunking on Conventional Use
Channels
And the number one wireless enforcement issue . . . .
1. Monopolizing shared channels. Shared channels
must be shared, and licensees that broadcast
signal continuously or fail to monitor before
sending signals can be fined.

 

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